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Escape and Suspense! Vintage Radio's Interests
General
Drinking Roma Wines, providing gracious hospitality to my guests, solving crimes, searching for the yeti, giving rides to hitch-hikers, doubting my spouse's honesty, talking to space-men on my radio set, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, traveling to exotic countries, tending a lonely lighthouse, making phone calls in bed, getting "picked-up" by men, playing clever tricks on criminals, fighting armies of ants, plotting against my boss, ignoring warnings, being in danger, and adding water to my Auto-Lite Stay-Full battery three times a year. Find out more at www.escape-suspense.com!
Music
Anything by Bernard Herrmann
Movies
Sorry, Wrong Number, Dead of Night, Naked Jungle, La Traversee de Paris, Rear Window, The Lodger, The Birds
Television
SUSPENSE (Television Show), The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents,
About me:
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Hello! Welcome to the Myspace.com page for the blog Escape and Suspense! at www.escape-suspense.com. My name is Christine A. Miller. I am the author of the site and your guide through the world of the two mid-Twentieth century CBS radio series SUSPENSE and ESCAPE. These two anthology radio series paved the way for television shows such as THE TWILIGHT ZONE and ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS to later follow. SUSPENSE ran on CBS Radio between 1942 and 1962, and specialized in mysteries, horror, and radio noir. (SUSPENSE was also turned into a television show that aired on CBS between 1949 and 1954. Many of these episodes are now available on DVD.)
ESCAPE, SUSPENSE's sister show, ran on CBS radio between 1947 and 1954, and focused on exotic adventure, science fiction, and classic short stories. (ESCAPE is still considered to have been the best adventure series from the "Golden Age of Radio.")
Unfortunately, it seems that time has not treated the legacy of either show well. Although both series excelled at the art of story-telling and left behind impressive catalogs of episodes, their relevance has been more or less forgotten. As a fan, I felt that SUSPENSE and ESCAPE deserved a home on the Internet where they could be enjoyed in their full glory. My site is designed to entertain its visitors and to provide easily accessible reference information for fans, researchers, and students. Think of it as an online reference book/storybook that is constantly being updated. Both SUSPENSE and ESCAPE are believed to be in the public domain now and I post the best recordings of these shows that I can find.
Visit the home of Escape and Suspense! at www.escape-suspense.com. Find out more about the television show SUSPENSE from our companion site www.suspensetelevision.com.
Thanks!
Who I'd like to meet: Gracious hostess Elsa Maxwell, SUSPENSE's "Man in Black," the "Master of Suspense" Alfred Hitchcock, and my friendly neighborhood Autolite Dealer.
Escape and Suspense! Vintage Radio's Friend Space (Top 32)
Escape and Suspense! Vintage Radio has 238 friends.
I am besotted by your page, wonderful to be here and certainly a thrill, I am a vintage radio and film noir junkie..I need a Boston Blackie fix right now too ;) I imagine you are a fan of Lights Out because it is later than you think..
Join the costumed revelry of vamps, tramps, posers, performers, dandies, demimondes, harlots, libertines, absintheurs, and Weimar wannabes as they unlock Le Tourment Vert for a night of dancing and decadence!
I watched "Rear Window" the other night. Wow, what a great movie. Jimmy Stewart and Raymond Burr were great and Grace Kelly was incredibly beautiful. I think it's one my favorites, too.
I am an OTR fanatic! For those who haven't heard it, Listen to Neil Cream, Dr. of Poison with Charles Laughton....FABULOUS SHOW!!!!!!! My second favorite of all time is Meteorite Man!!! ENJOY...love your page!!!!
Thanks for all the swell programmes, Christine. Personally, though, I find nothing more terrifying than that babbling auctioneer followed by "L.S.! M.F.T.!"
I discovered OTR a few years back & got hold of most of SUSPENSE & ESCAPE on mp3's. Great stuff. It's amazing how radio shows are so neglected in the public mind. An A&E biography of Vincent Price mentioned all sorts of oddball details about him such as his being an art critic/collector & how he and his wife wrote cookbooks but they never mentioned his classic radio work. Three Skeleton Key, for example, is considered one of the best radio episodes of all time. Not to mention he had his own series in 'The Saint' & 'The Price of Fear'. Yet his radio work was never mentioned. Good to see a place on MySpace is keeping it (OTR) alive. Thanks for the add.
